Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Nieuwendyk

We're battling now. Before we were getting a little nervous as the game went on when it was tight. Now we're playing with a lot more poise with the puck. It's a sign our confidence is getting better.

Derek Roy

We're battling for first place with Ottawa, so all those games are going to be huge. Then Toronto and Boston are fighting for playoff spots, and Montreal's trying to stay in. Those are all going to be huge, key games for us. Those are all four-point games.

We're battling for a playoff spot and every game is important for us. The (next) three games, there's got to be no steps back. We have to go forward and win all those.

John Jay

We're battling but offensively we have just been struggling for the past month.

We're battling an issue that we have no legal control over. This is a county issue. I understand that this is an unsafe road. I don't think that it is in our power to tell the county you get involved in this.

We're battling an issue that we have no legal control over,

Chauncey Billups

We're battle tested. We're been in that situation so many times. We just had our confidence.

Through and through the Big Ten is a battle every game. We were a step away from the NCAA tournament last year and that's part of the reason we put a challenging schedule together for 2006. We'll have to show up every day, wire to wire. This could be our toughest schedule ever.

Jon Daniels

Three years with 200 hits and a batting title, and he's not satisfied.

We're really clicking right now. Our battle cry right now is 14-0 because that's something that no other (Coppell girls soccer) team has done.

We're ready for battle and all we need now is to hear the sound of the bugle.

We're quite excited about it. These are batteries that can be charged faster and can run longer and are really a major step up.

With the passing of this draft law, international cooperation in battling corruption and other transnational crimes will be made easier.

With very high-end phones and cameras, you're starting to see 802.11. The issue in those mobile devices is the battery power and cost of battery life in implementing that. The cell phone and camera guys see UWB as a very good solution for point-to-point connections with very low power.

Ron Gardenhire

We knocked the fire out of the ball. The guys swung the bats pretty good, and that's fun to see.

We knew when we came down it was going to be a battle until the end. We obviously didn't get the job done.

We knew they'd play that way because they are a real physical team. It is hard to get in there and battle and box out their 7-footers, and then they have five guys crashing the boards on every shot.

Wayne Gretzky

We know what we have with Boucher, and we know Curtis is a tremendous goalie and got a year off to get healthy, ... We expect it to be a competitive battle between both of them. . . . I'd like to see one of them jump up and grab that starting position.

David Hume

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

We accomplished what we needed to. We're really swinging the bats right now and a lot of kids had unselfish at-bats when the game was still tight. We had some walks and a couple of kids got hit and then the big boys knock them in. We just don't have an easy out in the lineup.

Andrew Demetriou

We always hear talk of clubs trying to sign new members but one of the biggest battles they have is to retain all of their members from the previous year.

When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they start moaning.

Abraham Lincoln

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

David Hawkins

The pitching was good tonight. It was just our bats went cold after the first inning.

There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle

There are lots of ways for people to get to know more about bats, and the best way is to find their local bat group,

We made a lot of arrests and back then they were very popular on TV -- Batman and Robin,

Larry Brilliant

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

Johnny Knoxville

I'm not out running around all the time. I'm not partying constantly and constantly battling myself. I'm with someone, and we are very, very happy.

We're excited to be at home. We had a super opening weekend, and we want to carry that momentum into this weekend. All three teams coming in are very good programs and will be battling for top honors in their conferences.

When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I said, 'Of course, this is bugged?'